Episode 7 - Beasts, Portals, and Prophecy

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Hello, friends. Welcome back to the Black Swan Rising Podcast. I'm your host, Michael B. Rush. In our last episode, we reviewed many scriptures that talked about the Latter-day Antichrist. He's going to be one heck of a fellow. According to the Book of Revelation, he's going to be able to perform mighty miracles in the eyes of all people. He's going to overcome the saints. He's going to rule all nations. He's going to join forces with this kingdom that received a deadly head wound that should have killed it, but didn't. And he's going to rise to a position of global power. And he's going to be defeated by the ships of Chittim that come in a mysterious manner, as has been spoken of in Daniel chapter 11, and also in the book of Numbers, when there's Balaam's prophecy about what would happen to the king of Asher in the last days, that the ships of Chittim would come against him. Now, Christ also mentioned that even the very elect, according to the covenant, could be deceived by this guy. He's going to be that incredible. I mean, he's going to, according to 2 Thessalonians, he's going to sit in the temple of God to show the world that he is God. And in his own mind, he's going to elevate himself above all gods as well. So he's drinking his own Kool-Aid. He is a very powerful man. It's not by his own power, he's enabled with power from Satan. And as a result, he does mind-boggling things. He seeks to change times and laws. In fact, the only way that any of us are going to survive with our faith intact is if we are able to listen to the constant guiding influence of the Holy Ghost. Now, this brings us to today's episode. In today's episode, we're going to be talking about the Antichrist peers. Particularly, I am referring to the beast, as is spoken of in the book of Revelation, Revelation chapter 13. Now, friends, let's be honest. The book of Revelation talks about things that have taken at face value are weird. Weird in the extreme. Most people don't really talk about the book of Revelation because it is so incredibly strange. Now, we've all heard the adage, truth is stranger than fiction. I think that we may find out when the dust is all settled and all the black swan events of the last days have come and gone, we will realize perhaps that the book of Revelation was far more literal than any of us were prepared to understand. Now let's kick things off with a very strange story. A friend of mine called me up and told me that he was at his house minding his own business when his phone rang. And he got a call from a friend of his that said, I'm just going to, for sake of this story, I'm going to say that this man's name was Connor. And Connor said that his friend called him up and said, Connor, you are not going to believe what has just happened. Connor goes, what? We'll call this other guy's name Bill. So Connor goes, Bill, what's up? And Bill says, Listen. I have been hired to run an excavation crew, and we are digging around out here in the superstition mountains in Arizona. We were told that we were searching for something. We weren't told what it was, but we were told that one, if we find it, we will know. And so we've just been digging a bunch of holes out here. And today we uncovered something that just is blowing our socks off. We uncovered an orange orb. It's about the size of a basketball. And as soon as we uncovered it, it started hovering above the ground and just kind of pulsating this orange glow. And we haven't told you the guy that hired us about this yet. I wanted to call you and have you come down and check this out. I know that this is a ways away for you, but you have got to come check this out. So Connor jumps in his car and drives down to check this out. Now, this was a day's drive away for Connor, so he didn't get there until the next day. So he goes to his friend Bill's house, and Bill says, Okay, get ready. This thing is the strangest thing I've ever seen in my life. And they go up to where this thing was, and it's gone. The glowing orange orb is no longer there. But you know, they had you've taken pictures and you know, things like that, and that was just wild. And you you may think to yourself, well, yeah, that's kind of a strange story, but why is it relevant? Well, it's relevant because of another, even stranger story that I heard from Dr. Stephen Greer. Now, Dr. Greer shared this story in a presentation that he gave in Arizona. And you can watch the whole presentation on YouTube, and I'll see if I can't include that in the show notes. But I have a transcript of a part of that YouTube video. And I think that the uh the YouTube video is titled Dr. Stephen Greer, May 12th, 2018, part two, Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind. And I'm taking this from minutes 52 to 57. Now, this, you know, I just typed this up myself. It may not be a completely perfect transcript of what was said, but you're definitely going to get the idea. And this will help you understand why I shared the first story. So I'm going to read the transcript. There is a group within the United States that is racing towards disclosure. This group is a breakaway group from the Mormon corporate empire. In other words, this is a group that has the religious context and understanding of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This breakaway group has reached full functionality on an anti-gravity interdimensional device as of a few weeks ago. Based on their discoveries, the intelligence community just had a meeting in Cheyenne Mountain between April 28th and May 5th to discuss the Mormon group's achievements. The purpose of the meeting was to determine a go-no-go on disclosing their system as part of a broader disclosure. Here is the problem. There are powerful people that want to use this technology to stage an eschatological end-of-the-world scenario. One of the things that happened in the lab in Salt Lake City was that a device about the size of a basketball, this is the orange orb that my was discovered in Arizona that my friend told me about. I think it may be talking about the same kind of thing. No, back to Greer's thing. About the size of a basketball was being tested. When the device was hit with a certain frequency, it began to levitate and exhibit free energy. It then opened a portal into a lower dimension. When the portal opened, all kinds of monstrous creatures started coming through the portal in the lab. The Mormons filmed it. As soon as this happened, I was notified by senior officials from both the NSA and the CIA. You have to understand that this type of eschatological disclosure has been authorized. Now I am speaking about this at great personal peril, meaning I am taking a great personal risk in sharing this information with you today. You have to understand that if this rolls out the way that the Cheyenne Mountain Group wants it to, they will present it as the end of the world, the return of Jesus Christ. Here's the problem. It was confirmed to me that the Cheyenne Mountain Group has now weaponized these portals into other dimensions. The weaponization of this kind of technology is an absolute threat to the structure of space-time, earth, and humanity. Furthermore, the CIA and NSA told me that this technology is now in the hands of a man who claims to be the messiah of this galaxy. I am quoting the NSA and the CIA. This is the scariest bleep, bleep, bleep, thing that I have encountered in 28 years of doing this. You ignore what I am telling you at your own peril, Dr. Stephen Greer. Okay. Now, that is particularly concerning to me because I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly referred to as the Mormons. So Stephen Greer is saying that there is a breakaway group from my church that is involved in this. Now, because of how concerning you might imagine that to be to me, I contacted Stephen Greer and said, What in the heck are you talking about? Who is this breakaway Mormon group? And he said that he couldn't tell me anything about it. So I don't know. When I hear what he says, and you know, you listen to Stephen Greer's whistleblower accounts, and I mean, I'm convinced that the people that he has, you know, spoken with are legitimate. So it's very bizarre that he is saying that there is a group that is affiliated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has broken away from them and is doing stuff on their own, that they have done some crazy stuff with a glowing basketball-shaped orb object that can hover above the ground. Because I was told by a personal friend of mine that something like this actually exists, and that he was told by his friend who actually dug one up out of the ground in the Superstition Mountains in Arizona. So, in the absence of Dr. Greer actually coming out and explaining what the heck he means by a breakaway group from a Mormon corporate empire, I'm left to kind of infer on my own what this might be, what he might be talking about. And what I think that he means is that there is a very well-connected group of scientists that believe in the doctrine of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and are doing some crazy scientific experiments that resulted in some bonkers results in their lab, which included a portal opening up and strange creatures stepping out through the portal on film. Now, these scientific discoveries, I think, may have given this group an extraordinary amount of power within the government. Because if you could figure it, if you had a device like this and you knew how to activate it, and Stephen Greer is saying that they absolutely have figured that out and they've weaponized it, meaning that they can open up portals at will, then you might suspect that a group like this would be fairly powerful and influential. And in fact, in another presentation that Stephen Greer gave, he said something also that was truly bizarre. He said that there are numerous underground facilities that the government owns across the country, but that the most advanced by far is the Dugway facility near Provo, Utah. And he said in that presentation that the Mormons have greater sway and authority at that facility than the president of the United States. Those are uh Dr. Stephen Greer's words, not mine. So again, he is saying that the there are some members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that are involved in this and have access to some incredible technology that they have somehow figured out. And as a result of that, they are given incredible authority in some of these black budget groups. Now, I I have no idea who any of these people are. I'm taking Stephen Greer at his word. I don't believe he's he lies about this kind of stuff. I do think that he is at his best when he is talking about the witness testimonies that he has received rather than when he is trying to interpret what all that stuff means. That being said, this is very peculiar. Now, being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and being intimately familiar with the doctrines of this church, I can understand why there would be some scientists that might espouse beliefs that would lead them to conduct some of the experiments that they have conducted and how they might interpret the results of those experiments if Dr. Greer is to be believed. Now, apart from this groundbreaking scientific discovery that these LDS church members, scientists, were able to figure out, Stephen Greer talked about the Cheyenne Mountain Group. Now, these, from what I understand from the YouTube presentation, are two separate groups. You got the scientists that figured it out, and you have the Cheyenne Mountain Group that has weaponized it. Now, Stephen Greer said the Cheyenne Mountain Group has weaponized it with the intent to bring about a false second coming event. I do not believe that these members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are weaponizing this. I think that it is the Cheyenne Mountain Group. Now, you'd have to ask Dr. Stephen Greer about this for clarification. But if these members, these scientists that happen to belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, if they truly are trying to weaponize this, well then they certainly are not members in good standing. Because I know of no members of my church that would willingly go out there and try to pull the wool over the eyes of the entire world, trying to convince them that Jesus Christ has come when he really hasn't. However, because Dr. Stephen Greer continuously refers to this group as being Mormons, we must conclude that the doctrinal beliefs of this group is very influential in the things that they are doing. So if we are to understand these things, then we need to talk about some of the doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that may be influencing the paradigm of these scientists that are experimenting with these crazy technologies. Now, I've already stated that I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. However, it is not my intention to share these doctrines with you to try to convince you that they're true. The reason that I am sharing these things with you on this podcast is so that you understand the perspective that I have and that these LDS scientists most likely had as they were experimenting with these incredible forces that frankly revolutionize the laws of physics as we understand them. Now, if you step back and look at the whole paranormal UFO phenomenon from a traditional Christian perspective, there's not a whole lot of boxes to place these things in. This isn't the case for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In fact, I've studied many world religions, and I have not found a single religion that has doctrine that is as custom-tailored to these kinds of scenarios that are happening all around us in the world today than the doctrine inherent within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Now, that does not mean for a moment that the average run-of-the-mill member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints thinks about these things in the way that I am going to talk about them today. But I'm going to share these things so that you have a background. Okay, so let's let's just start with the scriptures of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. So the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believes in the Bible. They also believe in the Book of Mormon, which is the book from which many people get the nickname Mormons. The Book of Mormon at a high level is the record of a group that left Israel about 600 BC and arrived through divine intervention into the Americas and created a civil civilization here that prospered between 600 BC and 400 AD when it collapsed. Now the Book of Mormon speaks about this group that came to the Americas through divine intervention as descending from the tribe of Joseph. Now, the Bible is clearly the record from the Jews, Christ's ministrations amongst the Jewish people. The Book of Mormon is the record of Christ's ministration amongst the house of Joseph, specifically the portion of the house of Joseph that came here to the Americas. And if you've ever held a copy of the Book of Mormon in your hand and looked at the cover, you would notice that it says on the cover, another testament of Jesus Christ. That is because within the Book of Mormon, you read about Jesus Christ appearing here in the Americas and ministering to the descendants of Joseph here on this continent, just as he administered to the descendants of Judah over in Jerusalem. In addition to the Bible and the Book of Mormon, the LDS Church has a book called The Doctrine and Covenants. And the Doctrine and Covenants is comprised of primarily of revelations received by Joseph Smith, who was the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and is considered to be a prophet by all the members of the church. And that's called the Doctrine and Covenants. And then we have one additional book of Scripture that is referred to as the Pearl of Great Price. Now, the Pearl of Great Price isn't very long, it's about 40 pages or so. But it is comprised of revelations regarding the lives of Moses, Enoch, and Abraham. Now, the Pearl of Great Price starts with a book called The Book of Moses. And the Book of Moses is about an experience that Moses had with the Lord when the Lord presented himself to Moses. And he shows Moses the greatness of God. He shows Moses his creations. And the experience simply astounds Moses. He simply cannot comprehend the vastness of God's creations. I want to read to you a couple of verses out of this revelation so that you understand the doctrines that these LDS scientists had when they're messing around with these incredible technologies. Okay, listen to this. Okay, I'm starting with the first four verses of Moses chapter one. The words of God, which he spake unto Moses at the time when Moses was caught up into an exceedingly high mountain, and he saw God face to face, and he talked with him, and the glory of God was upon Moses. Therefore, Moses could endure his presence. And God spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, I am the Lord God, almighty and endless is my name, for I am without beginning of days or end of years, and is not this endless? And behold, thou art my son. Wherefore look, and I will show thee the workmanship of my hands, but not all, for my works are without end, and also my words, for they never cease. Now I'm flipping over to verse 27. And it came to pass that as the voice was still speaking, Moses cast his eyes and beheld the earth, yea, even all of it, and there was not a particle of it that he did not behold or discern it by the Spirit of God. And he beheld also the inhabitants thereof, and there was not a soul which he did not behold, and he discerned them by the Spirit of God, and their numbers were great, even numberless as the sands upon the seashore. And he beheld many lands, and each land was called earth, meaning he beheld many other worlds, and there were inhabitants upon the faces thereof. And it came to pass that Moses called upon God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, why these things are so, and by what thou madeest them? And behold, the glory of the Lord was upon Moses, so that Moses stood in the presence of God and talked with him face to face. And the Lord God said unto Moses, For mine own purpose have I made these things. Here is wisdom, and it remaineth in me. And by the word of my power have I created them, which is mine only begotten Son, who is full of grace and truth. And worlds without number have I created, and I created them for mine own purpose, and by the Son I created them, which is mine only begotten. And the first man of all men, which I have called, Adam, which is many. But only an account of this earth and the inhabitants thereof give I unto you. For behold, there are many worlds that have passed away by the word of my power, and there are many more that now stand, and innumerable are they unto man, but all things are numbered unto me, and I know them, for they are mine. So this comes from the book of Moses. This book of Moses was received in 1830. This is the same year that the church was established. The church was established on April 6th, 1830. So, right out of the gate, it's established with this kind of perspective on the cosmos. From this vision, Moses understood that there were innumerable inhabited worlds throughout the cosmos, and that Jesus Christ created all of them. Therefore, Jesus Christ would be the savior of all of them. Now, this doctrine goes hand in hand with the concept of a galactic federation. At least the discussion that General Jeremiah had when he called into the evidence footprints, evident footprints radio program, where he said that the Galactic Federation was an organization of a bunch of hundreds of different planets that all believed in Jesus Christ and were joined in their faith in him. The members of the Church of Jesus Christ, this is just part of our scriptural account. Now, this isn't the only passage in the Pearl of Great Price that refers to innumerable worlds out there. In the book of Abraham, we have another revelation where Abraham, via the Urim and Thummim, also sees innumerable worlds that the Lord has created. And then we have another account in the book of Moses where Enoch has a very similar experience where he understands that there are just innumerable populated worlds. Now, let me share you, share with you an example from this part. So Enoch and the Lord. Now, Enoch is kind of a mysterious character from the Bible. There's only one verse that really talks about Enoch. It says that Enoch walked with God and was not because God took him. Well, in this revelation, we learn that God did take Enoch up unto himself. And Enoch and God are having a conversation about the inhabitants of this planet. And the Lord begins to weep when he looks at the inhabitants of this planet and sees how wicked they are. In fact, the Lord tells Enoch that amongst all the creations that he has made, which are innumerable, that the wickedness that is found upon this earth rivals that of all other planets. And he begins to weep because of that. And Enoch is shocked when he sees the Lord weeping. And he says this. This comes from the Pearl of Great Price, Moses chapter 7, and I'm starting with verse 29. And Enoch said unto the Lord, How is it that thou canst weep, seeing thou art holy from all eternity to all eternity? And were it possible that man could number the particles of earth, yea, millions of earths like this, it would not be a beginning to the number of thy creations. And thy curtains are stretched out still, and yet thou art there, and thy bosom is there, and also thou art just and thou art merciful. So in this account, Enoch uses the world as kind of an inhabited world as the base numerator here. And he says if you could take this world and break it down to its particles and number all of those particles and then do the same thing to another million worlds just like this, it wouldn't be the beginning of the number of thy creations. Now, that is a truly staggering. Number of inhabited worlds that the LDS scriptures contemplate. So members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints do not believe that we are alone in the universe. We believe that there are innumerable inhabited worlds out there. Now, just for uh context, I want to read you another portion of a revelation that comes out of Doctrine and Covenants. Now, you'll recall that the book of Doctrine and Covenants is a book that contains revelations that Joseph Smith received. And I'm going to read a verse out of a revelation that comes from this is called Doctrine and Covenants, section 76. And this is going to be verse 24. Well, I'm going to start in verse 22. This is Joseph Smith, he and a man by the name of Sidney Rigdon had this vision together. And this is the portion that's relevant to what we're talking about here, starting in verse 22. And now, after the many testimonies which have been given of him, this is the testimony, last of all, which we give of him, that he lives. For we saw him even on the right hand of God, and we heard the voice bearing record that he is the only begotten of the Father, that by him and through him and of him the worlds are and were created, and the inhabitants thereof are begotten sons and daughters unto God. So this is another kind of a bombshell doctrine from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, where Joseph Smith says, listen, we saw Jesus Christ on the right hand of God the Father. Now, this is one of the reasons that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, you may recall in a prior episode, I talked about the Aryan controversy. The Aryan controversy was in the early church where there was a schism between those that believed that God the Father and Jesus Christ were two separate individuals, and those that believed that they were somehow the same being meshed into one. Well, Joseph Smith said that he saw Jesus Christ standing next to God the Father. And this wasn't the only time that Joseph Smith claimed to have seen Jesus Christ and God the Father standing next to each other. When he was a 14-year-old boy, he went out to pray, and he had what is known in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as the first vision, where God the Father and Jesus Christ descended in a pillar of light and stood before him. And God the Father called Joseph by his name and said, Joseph, this is my beloved son, hear him. So again, Joseph Smith saw that these were two separate individuals. This is why members of the Church of Jesus Christ believe that God the Father and Jesus Christ are two separate individuals. But the point that I'm making here is that Joseph Smith said that Jesus Christ created all of these worlds and that he is the savior of all of these worlds as well. So general Christianity is pretty myopic in their understanding. We traditional Christians tend to view the world from the perspective of earth. We think about Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ came to this earth, but and you know, so we we kind of think that anything else that exists in the cosmos must either be angelic or demonic. But all of the mortal beings like us live here. Well, that is radically different from the understanding and the belief system of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We believe that we are one of innumerable inhabited worlds throughout the cosmos. However, we do believe that Jesus Christ was born into mortality upon this planet and that his atonement, which was wrought on this planet, is valid for all of the inhabited worlds throughout the universe. This might be a good time to call to memory the story that I told in the prior episode about a man that I was introduced to, who claims to have spent much of his life working with people from other worlds. And indeed, he claimed to have been, you know, invited to go on their ships with them, that he saw the earth from space. And that in one of his conversations with these uh folks, he asked them, Hey, how come you guys are coming here? I mean, there's there's lots of you coming here. Why are why are you doing it? And you might recall that this man asked my friend, Are you a religious man? And he said, Yeah, I am. He said, Well, what do you learn about in church? I said, Well, Jesus Christ. And he said, Well, uh, who do you think we learn about in church? My friend said, Jesus? He said, When you go to church, what do you learn about Jesus? Do you learn about the place he grew up and the things that he did? If you had the opportunity, would you want to go and see those places? And my friend said, Yeah, of course. And then this man said to him, Well, uh if there were other civilizations that had the ability to come and visit the places where Jesus lived and atoned for our sins, don't you think that they would want to do that as well? And yeah, that kind of shocked this man. But if Jesus Christ is the sovereign savior of the universe, then of course that would be the case. So it's it's just another very interesting tie-in to this doctrine. One more interesting thing I'd like to share from the LDS Canon is going back to the Doctrine and Covenants, in section 107 of the Doctrine and Covenants, there is a very interesting reference in a revelation from Joseph Smith, wherein the Lord mentions the book of Enoch that was at that point not available anywhere in the United States. It was still considered a last book of the Bible. The Lord mentions that the book of Enoch would contain prophecies from Enoch's day until the end of the world, and that the book of Enoch would be testified of in due time. That prophecy occurred several years before the first translation of the book of Enoch into English was available in America. So the Doctrine and Covenants claims that the book of Enoch will be testified of. In other words, it's all but saying, hey, the book of Enoch is true, and you will understand that it is true in the coming days. Now that is very, very interesting given the entire premise of the book of Enoch is that in antiquity, 200 men came to the earth from another world and utterly corrupted it. And that as a result, they were bound from influencing mankind for 70 generations. But after those 70 generations, they would influence mankind once more in the last days, and in the last days, as it was in the day of Noah, so it would be on the earth once more, meaning the watchers would corrupt society in the last days. So this is the perspective that these scientists that Dr. Stephen Greer is talking about would have understood the cosmos from. Okay, it's it's very different from traditional Christianity. Now, according to Dr. Stephen Greer, these scientists pulled up a portal in their lab with this technology, and strange creatures started coming through the portal and they recorded this. Now, is there anything in LDS doctrine that could have served as the spring, the doctrinal springboard from which these scientists would have been viewing these creatures coming out of this portal in their lab, according to Dr. Greer? Well, surprisingly, the answer to that question is yes. This comes from the prophet, the teachings of the prophet Joseph Smith. And surprisingly, it goes directly to this. So I'm going to read from the book where this doctrine is found is called The Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith. And you can read this in on page 287 through 294. Now I'm going to take just extracts of this, but the context of this discourse from Joseph Smith, as there was some contention in some of the early congregations regarding some of the doctrines found in the book of Revelation and also in the prophecies of Daniel. And because of some disputations that were going on regarding this doctrine, Joseph Smith stepped in and said, Okay, I'm going to explain this to you, and this is his explanation of it. The subject I intend to speak upon this morning is one that I have seldom touched upon since I commenced my ministry in the church. It is a subject of great speculation, as well amongst the elders of this church as amongst the divines of the day. It is in relation to the beast spoken of by John the Revelator. I have seldom spoken from the revelations, but as my subject is a constant source of speculation amongst the elders, causing a division of sentiment and opinion in relation to it, I now do it in order that divisions and differences of opinion may be done away with, and not that a correct knowledge on the subject is so much needed at the present time. Okay, so let's stop here. So Joseph Smith is saying, listen, you guys are arguing a lot about these things. And so I'm going to tell you what they mean so that you can stop arguing about it. But, and he said this in 1830. So he's saying, listen, you don't need to understand this in the 1830s, but you will need to understand it at some point. And so I'm explaining it so you can stop arguing about it.

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Now uh we're picking up. There is a grand difference and distinction between the visions and figures spoken of by the ancient prophets and those spoken of in the revelations of John. The things that John saw had no allusion to the scenes of the days of Adam, Enoch, Abraham, or Jesus, only so far as is plainly represented by John and clearly set forth by him. John saw only that which was lying in futurity. So what is Joseph Smith saying here? He's saying the book of Revelation is contain, you know, is speaking about the events that are going to transpire in the last days. He's not talking about things that happened in former times unless he specifically says that he's saying so. The book of Revelation, the beasts, they're talking about things that are going to take place in a future day. Then he continues. John saw beasts that had to do with things on the earth, but not in ages past. The beasts which John saw had to devour the inhabitants of the earth in days to come. The beast that rose up out of the sea should be translated the image of a beast, as I have referred to it in Daniel's vision. The prophets do not declare that they saw a beast or beasts, but that they saw the image or figure of a beast. Daniel did not see an actual bear or a lion, but the images or figures of those beasts. The translation should have been rendered image instead of beast in every instance where beasts are mentioned by the prophets. But John saw the actual beast in heaven, showing to John that beasts did actually exist there and not to represent figures of things on the earth. When the prophets speak of seeing beasts in their visions, they mean that they saw the images, they being types to represent certain things. At the same time, they received the interpretation as to what those images or types were designed to represent. The beasts which John saw and speaks of being in heaven were actually living in heaven and were actually to have power given to them over the inhabitants of the earth, precisely according to the plain reading of the Revelation. I give this as a key to the elders of Israel. The independent beast is a beast that dwells in heaven abstract from the human family. I suppose that John saw beings in space of a thousand forms that had been saved from 10,000 times 10,000 earths like this, strange beasts of which we have no conception. All might be seen in heaven. The grand secret was to show John what there was in heaven. Teachings of the prophet Joseph Smith, pages 287 to 294. Okay, so let's unpack that a little bit. What is the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints saying? He is saying that John saw beasts that dwelt on other planets in the heavens that were going to come to the earth in the last days and wreak havoc upon the earth's inhabitants. He taught that the beast, the independent beast spoken of in the book of Revelation, was literally a beast that dwelt in heaven apart from the human family. Okay. So now let's put ourselves in the shoes of, according to account from Dr. Stephen Greer, these LDS scientists who are opening up portals in a lab in Salt Lake City, out of which strange beasts come through from other worlds. In other words, they have a box for this. Even if the rest of Christianity doesn't have a box for this, they do. Now, Dr. Stephen Greert isn't the only person talking about strange creatures coming through portals. There have been other people that are talking about non-human entities as well. One of the surprising people that has spoken about this is Representative Eric Burleson, who's a congressman from Missouri. He is on record saying that he has been in meetings with scientists from the Pentagon. He named Eric Davis as being one of these, but they testified to him and other congressmen that the Pentagon was aware of four separate alien species that are interacting with people on the earth, having literally done things with specimens. According to Congressman Burleson, he said that there were grays, there were insectoids, which are creatures that look like preying mantises or other types of insects. He said that there were reptilian creatures. You might recall that General Jeremiah said that he had been interacting with reptilian-looking creatures. And then there were also people that looked just like humans on Earth. So this is what this is what Eric Davis told Representative Burleson from Missouri that is happening in the Pentagon. So this seems to correlate with some of these strange creatures that were coming out of the lab in Salt Lake City. If this story related by Dr. Stephen Greer is to be believed. In addition to this, I recently read a book called Lost on Skinwalker Ranch: The True Story of a Property Guard and His Encounter with the Paranormal. This book was published in 2014. It was written by Eric T. Retz. And it's about a guard that was working at Skinwalker Ranch when it was owned by Bigelow. And he went through a portal and described seeing creatures that looked like werewolves. And he claimed to have been gone for seven days. And you know, and the the book is is pretty interesting in that regard. But again, another person that is telling a story about strange creatures on other worlds. Another very interesting book that I have read is The Day After Roswell by Colonel Carrasho. He claims to have been, and you know, I have no reason to doubt him. The foreword of his book was written by a very well-known senator who's over the intelligence committee. He claimed to have been over the Army's RD division in the Pentagon. And he claims that after Roswell, he was given alien bodies and they're classical gray aliens. And he was told that he needed to have the bodies examined by different universities around the country. And there wasn't a, you know, no particular university received an entire alien body. They all received parts and pieces. And then he was meant to put together all of the results and opine on what was going on. But again, you have another account of a credible witness saying, listen, there are non-human entities that are coming to the earth. And it seems to kind of fit with some of these strange things that we have been talking about in the Black Swan Rising podcast so far. Now, let's get back to the beast from Revelation. Let's read what the book of Revelation actually says about this creature. So I'm opened up to Revelation chapter 13, and I'm going to read about this specific creature. It starts in verse 13. And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon, and he exercised all the power of the first beast before him, which caused the earth and them which dwelt therein to worship the first beast whose deadly head wound was healed. And he doth great wonders, so that he maketh fire to come down on heaven, on the earth, in the sight of men. And he deceived them that dwelt on the earth by means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast, saying to them who dwell on the earth that they should make an image to the beast which had the wound by the sword and did live. And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he caused all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand or in their foreheads, that no man might buy or sell, save he had the mark of the beast and the number of his name. Herein is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is six hundred, three score and six. Okay. So according to Joseph Smith, he said that this independent beast, meaning the beast that's separate from the one that received a head wound that should have killed it, but did not, was an actual creature that would come to the earth from another planet, from outer space in the last days. And according to John the Revelator, this beast isn't normal. It's not some mindless wonder. It is a hyper-intelligent creature. He describes it as having two horns like a lamb. And it's able to exercise laws of physics that are so far beyond our ability to explain or describe that it's unbelievable. And if you read elsewhere in the book of Revelation, you learn that this beast is working hand in hand with the false prophet. In fact, John saw that both this beast and this false prophet had evil spirits that were inside of them, that were empowering them and giving them power to work these mighty miracles. And John saw these evil spirits come out of their mouths in the form of frogs. Now, I doubt that these evil spirits are literally frogs coming out of these mouths, but I think the takeaway here is that the Antichrist and this beast, they are empowered through demonic hosts, but they are not demons themselves. They are physical, tangible entities. Frankly, I think it'd be a lot better if they were just you know intangible demons, but they're not intangible, they are physical, they are incredibly powerful. And you continue in the book of Revelation, particularly again, let's see this where this is in yeah, verse or chapter 11, it talks about how Jerusalem will be sieged for three and a half years. And we know that that siege comes about by way of the Battle of Armageddon. And the Battle of Armageddon is led by this antichrist and this beast. They lead all of the armies of the earth and they do incredible things, and they essentially are able to overcome Jerusalem, even though Jerusalem has been given to prophets that are able to do mighty miracles themselves. Let me just, you know, read from the book of Revelation in chapter 11, so you get a feel for what's going on here. And there was given me, meaning John the Revelator, a reed like a rod, and an angel stood, saying, Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and them that worship therein. But the court which is without the temple leave out and measure it not, for it is given unto the Gentiles, and the holy city shall they tread underfoot forty and two months. That's three and a half years. And I will give power to my two witnesses, that they shall prophesy a thousand and two hundred and three score days, clothed in sackcloth. These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before God of the earth. If any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth and devour their enemies, and if any man hurt them, he must in this manner be killed. These have power to shut up the heaven that it rain not in the days of their prophecy, and have power over the water to turn it to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues as often as they will. And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them and kill them. And their bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. And they of the people and the kindreds and the tongues and the nations shall see their dead bodies three and a half days, and shall not suffer their bodies to be put in graves, and they sh that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them and make merry, and shall send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt upon the earth. And after three and a half days the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet, and great fear fell upon them which saw them. And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither, and they ascended up into heaven in a cloud, and their enemies beheld them. Okay, so according to John, there will be two prophets that come to Jerusalem in the last days to preserve Jerusalem from falling into the hands of the Antichrist and the beast until the day of their testimony has been concluded. Now, when the day of their testimony is over, the beast, and from this beast, we're talking this beast from outer space, comes and kills them. So by this we understand that this beast is something else. He is incredibly powerful, and so powerful that these two prophets are killed by him. Well, how does it end for this antichrist and the beast? Well, we read about how this ends in Revelation chapter 19. Now I'm going to read this because this is really cool. I love this part. I'm starting in verse 11. And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he that sat upon him was called faithful and true, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns, and he had a name written that no man knew but he himself, and he was clothed with a vestiture dipped in blood, and his name is called the Word of God. And the armies, which were in heaven, followed him upon a white horse, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, and out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations, and that he should rule them with a rod of iron, and he treadeth the wine press of the fierceness and the wrath of the Almighty God, and he hath on his vestiture and on his thigh a name written, King of Kings and Lord of Lords. And the beast was taken, and with him that false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast that worshipped his image. Both these were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. Okay, so according to the Book of Revelation, this beast, this extraterrestrial monster, and this false prophet are both taken by Jesus Christ and cast into hell while they are still alive. Now, this sounds very literal to me. It does not sound at all like this is somehow symbolic, because Christ is literally taking them and destroying them personally. Therefore, the Antichrist and the beast must be every bit as real as Jesus Christ. Now, friends, I I realize that the things we've been talking about in this episode today are scary. They are stress-inducing, anxiety-inducing, I mean, things of this nature are, you know, mind-blowing. And God forbid anything in this episode is actually going to happen to us and that we're going to experience these things ourselves. I mean, it's just like, oh my goodness. I mean, you can understand if any of this is remotely true, while why Daniel would have said in Daniel 12, verse 1, that we are coming upon days of trial that will be greater since any time there was a nation. We are going to need to have the Holy Ghost to be with us. To empower us, to enable us, to help us to retain our faith. Because if these things are true and we see things that seem to be better suited in a science fiction novel than in our reality, it's going to be very hard for us to retain our faith when nothing that we have believed in in the past seems to be on firm foundations anymore. The world has been turned upside down, and things that were supposed to not exist are right in front of our eyes. And these incredible personalities, these powerful personalities, are providing all kinds of evidences and you know miracles and signs and wonders that astound us and make us doubt everything that you know we have been taught through the Holy Spirit in the past. And therefore, we are going to need to prepare in advance of these things in earnest. We really need to have an increased endowment of power in our life if we're going to be able to make it. And fortunate for us, the Lord has promised to do just that. We we cannot expect that the satanic powers of Lucifer are going to go unchecked and be raging upon the surface of this planet in ways most have never even imagined without also expecting that the Lord will pour out his spirit upon his saints, upon the disciples, those who seek to follow in the footsteps of his only begotten son. And I firmly believe that this endowment of power will be given to all those that humble themselves and call upon the Father having faith in his only begotten son. God will not leave us. Yes, he is going to permit us to be tested in absolutely incredible ways, astounding ways, ways that you know just boggle the mind. I mean, just look at some of the things that we've talked about in this Black Swan Rising podcast so far. I mean, we've talked about, you know, craft coming here from other worlds. We've talked about the lady coming here being served by these black aliens with glowing red eyes. I mean, that's this is freaky stuff. We've talked about an antichrist that comes here from somewhere else that does incredible things. Today we're we've talked about a beast that comes here from elsewhere. And you know, if there's you know one person that can come here from elsewhere, why can't there be hosts of people coming here from elsewhere? So I doubt that we're just talking about an antichrist and a beast. I think it is far more likely that we're talking about hosts of these creatures, but we are also going to be empowered by hosts of you know angelic forces that will be with us. And this leads us to the subject matter of the next episode, which will be centered on the incredible divine aids that the Lord has promised to send us during these days of abject terror. I mean, remember, Christ told his apostles that men's hearts would fail them for fear, for seeing those things which are coming upon the earth. Now, think about the things that we've talked about so far coming upon the earth. Yeah, we've talked about UFOs coming upon the earth, we've talked about the lady coming on the earth, her strange minions, we've talked about the Antichrist, we've talked about literal beasts coming upon the earth. These things are terrifying, but they're not the only things that the Lord has prepared. The Lord has prepared a deliverance for his people that will rival the exodus of Egypt. The deliverance that the Lord has prepared is going to be every bit as incredible, if not more so, than the things that we have talked about so far. And this deliverance revolves around the restoration of the entire house of Israel. Because so far, we've really only talked about two of the 12 tribes of Israel. We've talked about the Jews. Everybody understands the history of the Jews, but today, maybe this is the first time that you have heard this was you know, the nation-state of Joseph that was once here upon the American continent and is testified of in the Book of Mormon. Well, those are only two of 12 tribes, and there's a lot more to discuss about the restoration of the house of Israel, which will be the manner in which the Lord provides this incredibly miraculous deliverance and the rebuffing of these demonic hosts in miraculous ways that will cause even the kings of the earth to shut their mouths in absolute astonishment at the things that the Lord has prepared and is bringing to pass upon the earth in the coming days. So, friend, I I know that I've given you a lot to think about. I want to remind you that the purpose of this podcast is not to convince you of any of these things. The purpose of this podcast is to help you get boxes for these types of types of things so that if God forbid they actually start to happen, you can hopefully start reconciling them and retain your faith in Jesus Christ without just losing it and throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Now, I know that there are people from all faiths that are listening to this podcast. You know, there's people from every inhabited continent on this planet listening to this podcast. I want to reiterate at the end of this that we are going to need to rely on each other. We are going to need to set aside our doctrinal differences, and we are going to need to bind ourselves to one another and help one another to retain the faith that we have in Jesus Christ. If there are differences in faith, the Lord can straighten us all out when he comes again. That is not my concern at this point. My concern is that we make it to when the Lord comes again. And then He can He can straighten us out and get us all on the same page. But we need to make it there. And we need to strengthen each other. We need to be examples of the believers. I I think that Paul explained it wonderfully in his seminal discourse on charity, when he said, Listen, yeah, it really doesn't matter if if you have the gift of prophecy and you can prophesy of all things. If you don't have charity, if you don't have the love of God in your heart, then you're nothing. You're like a tinkling symbol, like a you know, a little bell that you know dings and then fades away into nothing. It's the love of Jesus Christ towards our fellow man that marks us as his true disciples. I mean, Christ came out and said that, you know, by this shall men know that ye are my disciples, that ye have love one to another. He didn't say love those that believe like you do. He said, Love your fellow man. And so we need to get rid of the anger, the contention, the fear, and focus on trying to personify the life and teachings of Jesus Christ to the best of our ability and to help others to look to him and to retain their faith when everything starts to go completely bonkers. The Lord will be there for us, he will provide miraculous ways for us to make it through, but we need to retain our faith in him. And I can't wait to talk about some of those incredible things that the Lord is going to do to provide these incredible deliverances. It's it's going to make the last days worth experiencing. And you know, I'm I'm excited to talk about that next time. But until then, I don't want you to end this episode being totally freaked out. I want you to think about the power of God the Father and the power that he has placed into his only begotten son, Jesus Christ. There is literally nothing that God cannot do. I mean, we're we're told that God could raise up seed to Abraham from stones, but he can do anything, literally. Nothing is impossible for him. So he can see you through these days. He can and will do that if you will have faith in him and in his son. So let's keep the faith, friends. Let's keep seeking, let's keep searching, let's strive to have the Holy Ghost more abundantly in our lives. For as the Son of God has said, those who seek shall find. Until next time, friends, God bless.

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